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Tang and Song China
Section 1
A. Analyzing Causes and Recognizing Effects As you read this section, take notes
to answer the questions about how the Tang and Song dynasties transformed China.
What impact did the Tang and Song dynasties have on the following areas of Chinese society?
1. Transportation
2. Government
3. Foreign trade
4. Agriculture
5. Science/Technology
6. Art
7. Old Aristocratic Families
8. Gentry
9. Women
B. Clarifying On the back of this paper, identify Tang Taizong and Wu Zhao.
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What changes did the two dynasties bring about for the following groups?
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The Mongol Conquests
Section 2
A. Determining Main Ideas As you read about the Mongols, take notes to answer
the questions.
The Rise of the Mongols
1. What was the primary cause of conflict between steppe nomads and settled communities?
2. How was Genghis Khan able to unite the nomadic Mongols?
3. What traits enabled Genghis Khan to conquer most of Asia?
The Khanates
4. Into what four khanates did the successors of Genghis Khan divide the Mongol Empire?
5. How did the Mongols rule?
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6. How did the cultural differences among the khanates eventually affect the empire?
The Pax Mongolica
7. What was the Mongol peace?
8. How did this peace affect trade and cultural interaction?
B. Summarizing On the back of this paper, explain how the terms
pastoralist and clan apply to the nomads of the Asian steppe.
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The Mongol Empire
Section 3
A. Summarizing As you read this section, use the questions to help you summarize
information about Mongol rule in China.
1. Who?
Who was Kublai Khan?
Who was Marco Polo?
2. When?
When did the Mongols gain
control of all of China?
When did Kublai Khan rule?
3. Where?
Where did Kublai Khan build
palaces?
Where did Kublai Khan move
the capital of his empire?
4. How?
How did the Mongol rulers treat
their Chinese subjects?
How did Kublai Khan expand
foreign trade?
Why did the Mongols give most
high government posts to foreigners?
Why were the Mongols unable to
conquer Japan?
Why is the Yuan Dynasty important in
Chinese history?
6. What?
What brought about the fall of the
Yuan Dynasty?
B. Clarifying On the back of this paper, explain the origin of the word kamikaze.
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5. Why?